I now have 1GB of ram, do I let windows manage my page file or....

[AthlonXP]

Set it for no page file? Running WinXP pro btw.


thanx.

 

[Budman]

let windows manage my page file

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Unless you have a specific reason not to, just let XP Pro manage the swapfile. It seems to do a good enough job for most.

- M4H

 

[AthlonXP]

Thanks!

 

[boyRacer]

Don't turn that off... you can either let windows manage it or set your own size so it doesn't keep resizing.

 

[LatexRat]

I have a server with 600mb ram .. If left on for a few days the page file gets upwards to 900mb while ram usage stays the same . Why oh why?

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Budman

let windows manage my page file

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Budman

let windows manage my page file

Yes, indeed. There are many good technical reasons why you should have a swap file, even if it is just a small one; we've had this debate many times before, and it is definitely best to leave your swapfile alone (unless you have like 8GB of RAM and it wants to make a 12GB swap file, then you would need to take over and specify the limits manually).

 

[Joker81]

Some Suggestions. Make your own size probably 512-1GB. Make the upper and lower the same(512 and 512) so it doesn't resize it all the time. If you have two Harddrives put the swap on the second drive. Im not talking about 2 partitons. (Putting the Swap on the second partition is probably the worst you can do). this helps because less seeking on the first drive where Windows is located on and probably lots of your programs are located.

 

[eklass]

i would say set it to something lik 512MB-512MB

when you've got a lot of ram, the chances what it will be going into the swap file is rare, but is does occasionally happen (as which point windows gets a reboot, damned thing)
this way you have some headroom and windows has 1 less thing to worry about (resizing the swap file)

 

[Nothinman]

Don't turn that off... you can either let windows manage it or set your own size so it doesn't keep resizing.

It won't do anything more than grow it if it needs more space, Windows can not shrink the pagefile until a reboot so there's no real gain in setting both min/max to the same sizes.